«The Slavonic field - 2013» poetic festival

6 September 2013

The festival of historical poetry «The Slavonic field -2013» will be held on September 14-15 in Izborsk and Pskov. The organizers of the event are: Pskov’s regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia, the State Committee on Culture of the Pskov Region, State museum-preserve “Izborsk”, the Regional center of arts and crafts. The main goal of the festival is to promote the work of modern poets, who write on historical-patriotic topics. From 87 applications, which poets from Russia and the near abroad countries have sent in, 32 applications were approved. 32 poets will read their poems on the 14th of September in Izborsk in the framework of a competition. On September, 15 the poetic holiday will continue in Pskov.

Nikolay Pereyaslov (the secretary of the administrative board of the Union of Writers of Russia, the member of the Presidium of the Literature Fund of Russia, the laureate of Sholokhov’s award of 2000) and Marcel Salimov (a member of the Union of Writers and the Union of Journalists of Russia, an honoured worker of culture of the Byelorussian SSR and the RF, a Recipient of the Order of Friendship) will take part in the festival.

The festival’s programme for September, 14 in Izborsk:

13:30-16:00 The opening of «The Slavonic field -2013» festival, poetry readings in the framework of a competition.

16:30-18:30 «History in verses» - poetical readings. The place where the event will take place: Moskovskaya str., 10 , «The Neskuchniy (joyful) garden».